Suu Kyi’s party proposes committee to change army-drafted charter

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said her country will repatriate Rohingya Muslims who meet a strict criteria set in 1993. - AFP/file

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s ruling party has proposed steps towards changing the constitution, its biggest challenge in nearly three years to the military’s power over politics as enshrined in the charter.

The proposal yesterday could add to the tension between the military and Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), which have been at loggerheads over the charter since the party’s historic landslide election win in 2015.